CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. CORWIN: Exactly. He's even got a slingshot. Some of these animals are actually drowning, trying to swim these new open waters. Global warming might be causing a slight rise in sea levels, but its largest effect here is damage to the coral reefs that protects these islands. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. And the water can reach the bottom of the ice. We are fighting for survival. They hope to be able to get that thing out, at least, during the next couple of days, but they've got a ton of crews up there. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): From Greenland's interior ice sheet, we travel to its east coast with Dennis Schmidt. The ice melts, the seas will rise. And this is what it looks like here on the ground. SISTER DOROTHY STANG, NUN/CONSERVATIONIST: The only thing they know is survival farming. Somewhere there's no animals or no people who live there. Some are harvested by small farmers eking out a meager living. PLANET IN PERIL continues right after this break. We decided to go there and try to get some answers along the way. All this land is appearing and the water is disappearing. In Kraho, they always celebrate the arrival of visitors with a ceremony. Ibama doesn't have nearly enough personnel to protect them all. It outlines the solutions that have been tried, and analyzes why they have thus far fallen short. This reef is dying, which means less protection from storms and fewer fish to eat. From the air, it's clear the lake is dropping. I'm Anderson Cooper. COOPER: Where endangered animals are bought and sold and killed. To truly understand that, we are now going to travel with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, as he experiences how climate change is impacting people today in the South Pacific. These are the men bent on stopping that. It's called Deer Horn Valley. That's the last remnant of this thing, they hope, at least in terms of this side of the fire. Why is it happening? COOPER: Hansen was nearly alone back then. The agents are heavily armed, but heavily outnumbered. There's at least a billion dollars in damage here in San Diego County alone. But many of them will come back, unfortunately, to this -- Anderson. Public Libraries; K-12 Schools; Business & Law; Can that be lessened? Jessica_Roberson5. Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind - climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. The swarms have brought with them malaria. Joe Biden, 46th President of United States of America. In all these places, all these problems are interconnected. This is your refrigerator? They're probably selling the meat, as well. COOPER: I've (INAUDIBLE). THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. About; Blog; Projects; Help; Donate. If we don't, we can live one day without food or two days without food. Their job is daunting, something you can only appreciate from the air. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The struggle today is how to get food. But I would like to (CROSSTALK) INHOFE: No, I have 15 minutes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The supply that we have from the government, which is how many bails of rice, it's already finished. I think you might be seeing those right now. It used to be one of the largest lakes in the world, but it's disappearing. And, right here, between that land over there and this land over here, this is the river mouth. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Police used a reverse 911 calling system to order hundreds of thousands to leave their homes. When we come back, the lessons learned. (on camera): What are these rotating things? CORWIN (voice-over): Amstrup loads the tranquilizer dart into the gun as we circle low over the mother bear to make sure we don't scare her away from her cubs. And Amstrup, hanging from the side of his window, aims and takes his shot. U.S. Geological Survey scientist Steve Amstrup loads his tranquilizer gun. And they're being cut down at a breathtaking rate. Yet due to its dry climate, scientists say it's the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. STEFFEN: We actually drove 11 miles. STEFFEN: Good. When water heats up, it expands and rises. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. (ET/PT) and globally on. Look on the United States, probably the most violent weather on Earth of any large civilized nature -- the number of tornadoes COOPER: Right. COOPER: That's true. We are the first people to ever visit here. The Lake Chad Basin Commission has a plan to divert water from the Congo River, but it remains controversial and unfunded. COOPER: That was far more unpleasant than it needed to be. President Bush today declared a major disaster area here in California. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right now race and class really determine where you find the good things, like parks and trees, or where you'll find the bad stuff, like waste facilities and power plants. Maybe 10, 15 miles, sometimes a little farther than that. 11 terms. COOPER: The men take us to their camp site, where they've already clear-cut the forest. Transcripts that had higher similarity values for fungal genes versus plant genes were eliminated in further analyses as these transcripts may be from endophytic fungi within Rafflesia seeds. STEFFEN: Yes. So far, getting there is proving anything but easy. CORWIN: So as the apex or top predator in the ecosystem, polar bears sort of integrate. I can see the water from here, Rose, and they say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island within a few years. Crews managed to clean ash and fire retardant off a line strung across 70 towers and restore power just before the only other major power link to San Diego went offline. Police take them back to the scene, and they re-enact the brutal crime. The number of deaths caused by ambient air, chemical, and soil pollutionthe forms of pollution associated with modern industrial and urban developmentare increasing. provide stability, collect water, prevent run-off, remove carbon dioxide. What we see is startling, a gray landscape with little marine life. This used to be a mega-lake, one of the biggest lakes in the world. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So here's the plan. The Earth's climate has changed much during the planet's history. News / By Pangambam S / January 21, 2021 2:15 am. If the entire ice sheet dissolved, sea levels would rise by 23 feet -- spurning a global catastrophe that would flood coastal cities and displace tens of millions of people. GUPTA (voice-over): Some of the children here are clearly malnourished. It's not based on the fast flow that generates additional icebergs. I'm Anderson Cooper. Why? By 2050, there will be 50 percent more people on the planet than there are right now. It is staggering -- at least $1 billion in San Diego County alone. I am feeding (ph). If you take that number -- this is only based on melt. 1 In "Planet in Peril," CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin take viewers around the globe for a two-part documentary on the threats to the world's environment. We all are. Overpopulation, deforestation, species lost, climate change. . SCHMIDT: That's what you want to look at now. V. MARROQUIN: To change the pollution to somewhere else. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper in Rancho Bernardo, California. (on camera) These are Kraho. COOPER (voice-over): In case you're wondering, there is a bathroom. GUPTA: As the wetlands manager, he spent the last four years working with the Lake Chad basing commission, a group that's trying to save the lake. (on camera) Thank you very much. COOPER: She started a sustainable development program, teaching locals how to live off the forest and at the same time preserve it. What are we doing to our natural world? COOPER: If the sea levels, by the models that we have now, are going to rise three feet in the next hundred years, can that be reversed still? COOPER (voice-over): Four-and-a-half degrees Celsius is eight degrees Fahrenheit. As we sailed into the base of it and we kept finding open water, I became disoriented. R. MARROQUIN: When you're sitting out there, when you're watching them play, you think, "Is it going to happen? The men draw weapons, but instead of running, Sister Dorothy opens the Bible she's carrying and reads them a passage. STEFFEN: First of all, it got much warmer than we expected. A little bit ago in San Diego County, about 200 more people were ordered out of their homes. HANSEN: That's another big misconception. COOPER: Struggles for land, fights over resources, people drink from polluted rivers in China and die in broken villages invisible from the gleaming towers of Beijing. They have resumed now. Natural changes in the earth's orbit and the tilt of the sun 10,000 years ago caused the climate to shift, bringing out a long drought. Scientists call it thermal expansion. There's no telling what's around each corner. COOPER: And that may be true. Trump Sent Chilling Warning from 'Merchant of Death' Freed by Biden: 'Your Life Is in Peril' By Lorri Wickenhauser April 13, 2023 at 5:56pm Former President Donald Trump received a bleak warning last week from an unexpected quarter: Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer nicknamed the "Merchant of Death." Those numbers expected to climb. But is climate change really responsible for what's washing away their world? There is an effort under way to get a law passed in Texas, but Professor McGarity (ph) says it's going to be an uphill battle, because when it comes to the oil industry here, old habits die hard. So, what does that really spell for the forecast? This species of fish can grow up to 60 kilograms, and, today, you see, they just a few grams. Another update about the fire in 15 minutes. The ice sheets are melting. Both sides accuse each other of cherry- picking data. Already small islands slip beneath the sea. The biggest fire, the witch fire, has already destroyed more than 905 homes and other buildings. We'll be following it for you, Anderson. And of course as you can see, of course, we are not alone. It actually took five flights leaving from southern China. CORWIN: Our helicopter hugs the ground as we trace the footprints through the snowy expanse over the rubbled ice, until finally we spot them. But that's not what is happening today. 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